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No two Dawn of War games are alike. Sure, placed side by side and looked at through a telescope from the moon, they’d appear largely similar. This is a family of real-time strategy games, after all, and they’re ultimately beholden to the traditional look and feel of the genre. But! Each new entry in the series has managed to feel like it’s taken a sudden left turn and veered off the path set by its predecessor, meaning that every Dawn of War has produced a unique flavour that’s refreshingly different from what’s come before.

Considering the volume of video game franchises out there that’re consistently accused of growing too stagnant, too comfortable with the status quo they’ve manufactured for themselves, Dawn of War‘s insistence on reinventing itself with each new incarnation is kind of amazing.

Well, it only took about 20 years, but someone has finally cracked the DRM for the SEGA Saturn games console. This was the new hotness in SEGA’s lineup in the early 90’s, and ultimately became a commercial failure for many reasons – one of them called the “PlayStation”. But it got some games that turned into classics, and it’s a collector’s item to this day. However, owners are finding that the disc drives are starting to wear out, and no-one’s stepping up to create hardware replacements for these old machines. The only workaround is to load up the games via external storage, and that’s where the hack comes in. Thanks to three years of attempts from programmer James “Dr. Abrasive” Laird-Wah, the DRM was finally cracked and he’s able to load games, save files, and even music tracks to USB to play on the Saturn.

RTS fans rejoice! After lots of hints and speculation, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III is a very real thing we’ll get to play in 2017.

It’s never really been clear whether or not the game would see the light of day after Relic was gobbled up by SEGA following the collapse of THQ. I mean, we all sort of knew that we hadn’t seen the last of the Dawn of War franchise, but you can never be too sure. Luckily, any fears of the project being pushed aside can now be laid to rest. The news comes courtesy of the game’s reveal trailer, which features Orks, Space Marines, Eldar, and buckets of blood and shrapnel.

SEGA was once a leading figure in the console wars of yore, but these days they’ve found other ways to stay relevant. Besides being the publishers of franchises like Total War, Alien and Sonic, they’re also able to capitalise on their nostalgia value. Case in point: SEGA has announced the Mega Drive Classics Hub, a cool way to view and play your Steam collection of Mega Drive games.

In celebration of the fifth anniversary of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution (O_O), developer Relic Entertainment and publisher SEGA are adding a new playable champion to The Last Stand, the game’s immensely fun cooperative wave survival mode.

The Necron Overlord is the mode’s 8th character, and marks the first official appearance of the Necron in Dawn of War II. There’s a trailer and some more info below.

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